Brands and social media

Recently the meetings i have been, revolves around the issue of social media. Everyone seems to talk about putting a social media element to their websites. But wait, hold on, do you really know what you are actually getting into?

Everyone right now is trying to hop into this big social media ball game, but if i may, make a bold statement, social media is just a big bubble, It is getting huge and as all things, it is going to burst somehow. Why? It’s because the Internet isn’t connecting us as much as we think it is. It’s largely home to weak, artificial connections, what I call thin relationships. Continue reading…

Shikisai Tee-shirts

The duet of Japanese designers Noto-Fused explores the possibilities of interactivity in term of creation of tee-shirt.

HTML 5

HTML 5 is here but it got most of us (especially client) in a state of confusion. This diagram will be a good intro for all those out there that need a better understanding of how it works in a visual way.

Future of UI

Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow’s computers will be controlled?

Save bookmark

The save bookmark allows you to save the page you are reading. Make something offline become fun interesting again. Neat design thinking that made me look.

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Design quotes

Alex Giron put together a design quotes display system that can be used as a screensaver. Head over to neography.com/designquotes and take a look for yourself. Mac users can use IdleWeb, a nice little app that allows you to set up any webpage as your screensaver. Just make sure you set it up in “kiosk” mode within the screensaver options.

Sake bomb

This whimsical pouring vessel is a comical take on the western slang “Sake Bomb”. The inspiration is a juxtaposition of the Fugu Fish (Blowfish), the most opulent of sashimi cuts and a WW II sea mine. The small drinking cups perch neatly on the spines making it a compact entertaining tool.

The Sake Bomb was designed by Alexander Purcell founder of APRRO an interdisciplinary design studio based in Los Angeles.

We feel fine

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved, and now it’s being place into an interactive book.

Nike + Livestrong

A nice idea by Nike to make use of technology and messaging to encourage the participants of tour de france. Made the campaign more human and a whole lot meaningful.

Piano staircase

An interesting installation idea to make people use the stairs. Clever initiative.